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Lavagna Seeks to Roll Over Debt;
Protests Continue in Argentina

A Wall Street Journal Online NEWS ROUNDUP

Updated June 27, 2002 8:11 p.m. ET

WASHINGTON -- Argentina's Economy Minister Roberto Lavagna on Thursday pleaded with the International Monetary Fund to provide $9 billion in fresh credits, just enough to roll over debts owed to the IMF through the end of next year.

As the meetings were happening in the U.S., demonstrators in Argentina returned to the streets for a second day to repudiate the deaths of two antigovernment protesters and the country's dire economic situation.